Thought Leadership

We - Erik van Weert, Hannah Nesmith-Beck and Susanne Skoruppa - spent a morning with some 25 members of the current cohort of Radboud University’s AMID programme – the Advanced Master’s in International Development, directed by Sara Kinsbergen, a specialist on aid architecture and member of the Dutch Government Committee…

It was with a little trepidation and a lot of excitement that the Oxford HR team attended AIDEX 2021 in Brussels in November. Due to the pandemic, this would be the first in person event we had been at for over three years and in a sector like ours, where…

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Social inequalities are all around us: poverty and financial strain, racism, sexism, bullying based on sexual orientation, homelessness, and social exclusion due to disability or age, to name just a handful. Yet discussion on the causes of mental health problems often focuses on individual factors. Rarely does public discourse acknowledge…

Years have gone by since the heartbreaking news and images of refugees washed away on both sides of the Aegean Sea shook the world: the summer of 2015 will remain in collective memory as a symbol of the perilous journeys between Turkey and Greece… Six years on, although the human…

Higher education is one of the key sectors that could contribute to economic growth and development in the increasingly global society, key to the comprehensive sustainable development of Africa. In line with this vision, various governments and non-governmental institutions have recently initiated several policies and models in an attempt to…

I mentioned to a friend that I was writing an article on “Kindness in Leadership.” His opinion was that it would generally be viewed as another article on the soft and mushy, and those are perceived to be signs of weakness in a leader. After all, leaders are in the…

Oxford HR’s Erik van Weert, our Deputy Director for Europe, recently attended the Global Forum for Responsible Recruitment from 12-15 April. Hosted by IHRB, the ILO, and IOM, the annual GFRR is a thought leadership platform for accelerating the fair, ethical and responsible recruitment of migrant workers. It convenes a…

The saying goes that you can only manage what you can measure - you can only address a problem when you truly understand its scope. Yet, despite it being a problem in our sector for decades, there is surprisingly little understanding of the lack of diversity, equity and inclusion and…

As we enter 2021, thinking back to the past year of turmoil and transition, it is hard to think of any aspect of life which has not been impacted. This is especially true for those who are living below the poverty line in our global communities and cities. UNICEF’s Executive…